Miss America

Miss America adalah kontes kecantikan yang memberikan penghargaan berupa beasiswa kepada wanita muda dari lima puluh negara bagian ditambah dua wilayah Amerika Serikat, Kepulauan Virgin Amerika Serikat dan Puerto Riko. Pemenang pertama dari kontes skala nasional akan menyandang gelar "Miss America" selama satu tahun. Kontes ini mulai diselenggarakan sejak tahun 1921.

Tahun	Miss America	Daerah asal/Mewakili
2016	Betty Cantrell	Warner Robins,  Georgia
2015	Kira Kazantsev	Manhattan,  New York
2014	Nina Davuluri	Fayetteville,  New York
2013	Mallory Hagan	Brooklyn,  New York
2012	Laura Kaeppeler	Kenosha,  Wisconsin
2011	Teresa Scanlan	Gering,  Nebraska
2010	Caressa Cameron	Fredericksburg  Virginia
2009	Katie Stam	Indianapolis,  Indiana
2008	Kirsten Haglund	Farmington Hills,  Michigan
2007	Lauren Nelson	Lawton,  Oklahoma
2006	Jennifer Berry	Tulsa,  Oklahoma
2005	Deidre Downs	Birmingham,  Alabama
2004	Ericka Dunlap	Orlando,  Florida
2003	Erika Harold	Urbana,  Illinois
2002	Katie Harman	Gresham,  Oregon
2001	Ángela Pérez Baraquio	Honolulu,  Hawaii
2000	Heather French	Maysville,  Kentucky
1999	Nicole Johnson Baker	Roanoke,  Virginia
1998	Katherine Shindle	Evanston,  Illinois
1997	Tara Dawn Holland	Overland Park,  Kansas
1996	Shawntel Smith	Muldrow,  Oklahoma
1995	Heather Whitestone	Birmingham,  Alabama
1994	Kimberly Clarice Aiken	Columbia,  South Carolina
1993	Leanza Cornett	Jacksonville,  Florida
1992	Carolyn Suzanne Sapp	Honolulu,  Hawaii
1991	Marjorie Vincent	Oak Park,  Illinois
1990	Debbye Turner	México,  Missouri
1989	Gretchen Carlson	Anoka,  Minnesota
1988	Kaye Lani Rae Rafko	Monroe,  Michigan
1987	Kellye Cash	Memphis,  Tennessee
1986	Susan Akin	Meridian,  Mississippi
1985	Sharlene Wells Hawkes	Salt Lake City,  Utah
1984	Vanessa Lynn Williams	Millwood,  New York (Mengundurkan diri)
	Suzette Charles	Mays Landing,  New Jersey
1983	Debra Maffett	Anaheim,  California
1982	Elizabeth Ward	Russellville,  Arkansas
1981	Susan Powell	Elk City,  Oklahoma
1980	Cheryl Prewitt	Ackerman,  Mississippi
1979	Kylene Barker	Galax,  Virginia
1978	Susan Perkins	Columbus,  Ohio
1977	Dorothy Kathleen Benham	Edina,  Minnesota
1976	Tawny Elaine Godin	Yonkers,  New York
1975	Shirley Cothran	Fort Worth,  Texas
1974	Rebecca Ann King	Denver,  Colorado
1973	Terry Anne Meeuwsen	De Pere,  Wisconsin
1972	Laurie Lea Schaefer	Columbus,  Ohio
1971	Phyllis George	Denton,  Texas
1970	Pamela Anne Eldred	Birmingham,  Michigan
1969	Judith Anne Ford	Belvidere,  Illinois
1968	Debra Dene Barnes	Moran,  Kansas
1967	Jane Anne Jayroe	Laverne,  Oklahoma
1966	Deborah Irene Bryant	Overland Park,  Kansas
1965	Vonda Kay Van Dyke	Phoenix,  Arizona
1964	Donna Axum	El Dorado,  Arkansas
1963	Jacquelyn Mayer	Sandusky,  Ohio
1962	Maria Fletcher	Asheville,  North Carolina
1961	Nancy Fleming	Montague,  Michigan
1960	Lynda Lee Mead	Natchez,  Mississippi
1959	Mary Ann Mobley	Brandon,  Mississippi
1958	Marilyn Van Derbur	Denver,  Colorado
1957	Marian McKnight	Manning,  South Carolina
1956	Sharon Ritchie	Denver,  Colorado
1955	Lee Meriwether	San Francisco,  California
1954	Evelyn Margaret Ay	Ephrata,  Pennsylvania
1953	Neva Jane Langley	Macon,  Georgia
1952	Coleen Kay Hutchins	Salt Lake City,  Utah
1951	Yolande Betbeze	Mobile,  Alabama
1949	Jacque Mercer	Litchfield,  Arizona
1948	BeBe Shopp	Hopkins,  Minnesota
1947	Barbara Walker	Memphis,  Tennessee
1946	Marilyn Buferd	Los Angeles,  California
1945	Bess Myerson	New York,  New York
1944	Venus Ramey	Washington,  District of Columbia
1943	Jean Bartel	Los Angeles,  California
1942	Jo-Carroll Dennison	Tyler,  Texas
1941	Rosemary LaPlanche	Los Angeles,  California
1940	Frances Marie Burke	Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania
1939	Patricia Donnelly	Detroit,  Michigan
1938	Marilyn Meseke	Lima,  Ohio
1937	Bette Cooper	Bertrand Island,  New Jersey
1936	Rose Coyle	Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania
1935	Henrietta Leaver	Pittsburgh,  Pennsylvania
1933	Marian Bergeron	West Haven,  Connecticut
1927	Lois Delaner	Joliet,  Illinois
1926	Norma Smallwood	Tulsa,  Oklahoma
1925	Fay Lanphier	Oakland,  California
1924	Ruth Malcomson	Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania
1922-23	Mary Campbell	Columbus,  Ohio
1921	Margaret Gorman	Washington,  District of Columbia

Negara bagian	Jumlah kemenangan	Tahun kemenangan
New York	6	1945 [1], 1976, 1984 [2], 2013, 2014, 2015
Oklahoma		1926 [1], 1967, 1981, 1996, 2006, 2007
California		1925, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1955, 1983
Ohio		1922 [1], 1923 [1], 1938, 1963, 1972, 1978
Michigan	5	1939, 1961, 1970, 1988, 2008
Illinois		1927, 1969, 1991, 1998, 2003
Pennsylvania		1924 [1], 1935 [1], 1936 [1], 1940 [1], 1954
Mississippi	4	1959, 1960, 1980, 1986
Virginia	3	1979, 1999, 2010
Alabama		1951, 1995, 2005
Kansas		1966, 1968, 1997
Minnesota		1948, 1977, 1989
Texas		1942, 1971, 1975
Colorado		1956, 1958, 1974
Georgia	2	1953, 2016
Wisconsin		1973, 2012
Florida		1993, 2004
Hawaii		1992, 2001
South Carolina		1957, 1994
Tennessee		1947 [1], 1987
Utah		1952, 1985
New Jersey		1937 [1], 1984 [3]
Arkansas		1964, 1982
Arizona		1949, 1965
District of Columbia		1921 [1], 1944 [1]
Nebraska	1	2011
Indiana		2009
Oregon		2002
Kentucky		2000
Missouri		1990
North Carolina		1962
Connecticut		1933

¹ Pemenang yang mewakili munisipalitas dan bukan negara bagian.

² Vanessa Williams, Miss America 1984, yang mengundurkan diri, kemudian kembali.

³ Suzette Charles, yang seharusnya memegang gelar Miss America 1984 akibat pengunduran diri Vanessa Williams.

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  Margaret Gorman, Miss America 1921
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  Yolande Betbeze, Miss America 1951
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  Lynda Lee Mead, Miss America 1960
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  Dorothy Benham, Miss America 1977
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  Debbye Turner, Miss America 1990
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  Kate Shindle, Miss America 1998
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  Heather French, Miss America 2000
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  Katie Harman, Miss America 2002
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  Erika Harold, Miss America 2003
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  Ericka Dunlap, Miss America 2004
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  Deidre Downs, Miss America 2005
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  Jennifer Berry, Miss America 2006
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  Lauren Nelson, Miss America 2007
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  Kirsten Haglund, Miss America 2008
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  Caressa Cameron, Miss America 2010

• Bob Russell: 1940–1946, 1948–1950, 1954
• Bert Parks: 1955–1979
• Bess Myerson: 1964–1967
• Phyllis George: 1975–1978
• Mary Ann Mobley: 1979
• Ron Ely dan Dorothy Benham: 1980–1981
• Gary Collins: 1982–1991
• Mary Ann Mobley: 1985–1988
• Phyllis George: 1989–1991
• Regis Philbin: 1992–1996
• Kathie Lee Gifford: 1992–1995
• Eva LaRue dan John Callahan: 1997
• Boomer Esiason dan Meredith Vieira: 1998
• Donny dan Marie Osmond: 1999–2000
• Angela Pillas: 2000
• Tony Danza: 2001
• Wayne Brady: 2002
• Tom Bergeron: 2003–2004
• Chris Harrison: 2005, 2011, 2012 2013
• Brooke Burke Charvet: 2011, 2012, 2013
• James Denton: 2006
• Mario Lopez 2007, 2009–2010
• Mark Steines: 2008

• ABC: 1954–1956
• CBS: 1957–1965
• NBC: 1966–1996
• ABC: 1997–2005
• CMT: 2006–2007
• TLC: 2008–2010 ^[1]
• ABC: 2011–2013^[2]

• Miss USA
• Miss Teen USA
• Ms. America

Wikimedia Commons memiliki media mengenai Miss America.

• Miss America 2011 Diarsipkan 2011-08-23 di Wayback Machine.
• Miss America official site
• Photo Essay: America's Pageant Diarsipkan 2009-05-01 di Wayback Machine. A look back at more than 80 years of the Miss America competition on Time.com (a division of Time Magazine)
• Pageant Almanac: Miss America
• 1968-69 No More Miss America protests
• Audio Podcast special from Miss America 2006 - Episode #6, Episode #7, Episode #8 Diarsipkan 2011-08-24 di Wayback Machine.: all include recordings of press conferences from that week